weezy
climber
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Myopia, Elephants Perch
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nutjob
Gym climber
Berkeley, CA
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I might change mine to Sun Ribbon Arete to sneak some backpacking/alpine feel into the picture.
This is a hard question, like saying "if you could only feel one way for the rest of your life, how would you like to feel?" I enjoy being happy and ecstatic and blissful, but sometimes it's nice to just be chill and content too. Sometimes I like my cocoon, sometimes I like to fly in the wind on the hairy edge.
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healyje
Trad climber
Portland, Oregon
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What do you mean by "repeat" - I haven't gotten the c*#ks@cker a first time yet and will be 'repeating' the damn thing until I die at this rate.
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snowhazed
Trad climber
Oaksterdam, CA
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+1 for Positive Vibrations
Just give me the Hulk and I will be happy
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k-man
Gym climber
SCruz
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If you could only repeat one climb for the rest of your life, what would it be?
Seems to me the question is saying, "For the rest of your life, there is only one climb you can repeat." Not that you have to climb only one route for the rest of your life. I dunno ~
I suppose I'd want something long, and solid.
McTwisted presents a damn good candidate. That one has the full variety of climbing: thin crack, thick crack, hand crack, lay backs, a bit of a bouldery section, and a bit of a facey section. Oh, and more laser-cut cracks.
Hot Line also has the variety, including the laser.
As long as I can climb those I will. (How's that for positive thinking!)
Certainly, my choice would not be Top 40 to Middle Toilet.
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couchmaster
climber
pdx
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I hadn't done Royal Arches since the tree was there it seems like (20 years???) and we did a lap on it last May to get up to that nice long 10a friction up on N Dome. Damn that was so much fun I might have to go with Nutjob on this one.
Arches. Or Serenity/Sons of Yesterday. I usually get on that one when I'm in the valley. Great routes both.
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richross
Trad climber
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Foops.
Not sure I could even make the reach for the lip unless there was an open bag of potato chips.
Foops in 1976.
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Jeremy Ross
Gym climber
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Topic Author's Reply - Dec 6, 2012 - 02:17pm PT
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Yikes I figured this would be dead! I am enjoying reading everyone's lists! A few have put down "it's an easy one" or "it's not very hard", etc. I love getting on something that is at my limit and is hard for me. I love finally getting the thing clean after falling or just being a pussy and bailing but the routes that I seem to have the most fun on are one's that are easy for me and not very hard! Maybe I can enjoy the scenery and companionship more when I'm not focused on "...just make this move and you'll get a rest....maybe" mentality. Love the pictures, too! If I ever get back east I've gotta get to the Gunks. I've never been anywhere near it but Foops is one of those routes that you see a picture of that roof and just know, yep that's Foops.
-JR
Edit: and wtf??? How has no one put Lembert Dome down yet????
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donini
Trad climber
Ouray, Colorado
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Some climb that I do next Spring.
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Karen
Trad climber
So Cal urban sprawl Hell
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Riley, yes it is Igor Unchained!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! loved that climb:-)
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drljefe
climber
El Presidio San Augustin del Tucson
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It's a coin toss-
The Vampire
or
NE Face Pingora
do I have to do the approach?
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splitter
Trad climber
Cali Hodad, surfing the galactic plane
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It would most likely be NF of the Rostrum. That's probably the most memorable and rewarding climb I ever managed to get my ass up.
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micronut
Trad climber
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Tollhouse Traverse for sure.
Or the Regular Route on Fairview.
Or Matthes Crest.
Or a link up of all three. Overandoverandoveramdoverandoverandover for the rest of my life.
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Todd Eastman
climber
Bellingham, WA
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I would opt for something mellow like High E or CCK in the Gunks, Triple S at Seneca, or Gamesmanship or Catharsis at Poko because they would be a bit more fun than something like the Rostrum in 20 or thirty years.
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AKTrad
Mountain climber
AK
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At my age, every climb is new, whether I've done it before or not...
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adikted
Boulder climber
Tahooooeeeee
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Hindu Kush at Shiprock, grandfather mountain, NC... Ive done the damn thing countless times and every variation known..i could do it everyday for the rest of my life..
A close second would be the Cathedral Traverse...theres just so much variety you could always climb something new!!
Greg
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Adamame
climber
Santa Cruz
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Positive Vibrations
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Fritz
Trad climber
Choss Creek, ID
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OK! After writing about the anti-guidebook ethic in Idaho's Sawtooth Mtns today, now I'm overcome with nostalgia.
I climbed the Open Book on the Finger of Fate in mountain boots twice back in the 1970's, when it was considered a 5.6.
Sigh.
It would be great to climb it in rock shoes, now that it is considered a 5.8.
The route hasn't changed, but I have.
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Jebus H Bomz
climber
Reno, Nuh VAAAA duh
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Oh, damn, Adamame, one of the best pics of Positive Vibrations I've seen! That one is on my ticklist like crazy, I saw that pitch from way over on Red Dihedral and just started salivating at the sight of it.
One of my favorite games in this vein is to imagine constructing the sweetest multipitch climb from any of the climbs I've done. Or just imagining all the climbs I've done as one gigantic climb.
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Inner City
Trad climber
East Bay
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Hobbit Book. Love that.
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